A review by shreyaspadhy
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

5.0

A beautiful, charming and very entertaining book. The world building is absolutely top notch, and I'm amazed at how fleshed out every detail is about this multi-alien pan-galaxy civilisation. The biggest compliment I could give this book is that it reminded me of Mass Effect's world building and characters in the best possible way. It's also really refreshing to read sci-fi with a very wholesome, optimistic tone that tackles difficult issues without feeling grim or dystopian. This is not to say that those themes don't exist in this book, but the overall tone is very reminiscent of Firefly, involving a plucky group of misfits on a spaceship encountering situations way out of their control.